Gustin Johnson wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >So I pay for the privilege of being annoyed? Lovely. That is why I >like to give money to companies, to cause me more work and frustration. > >Why would I bother? There are better mp3 players out there, and ogg is >a better format than the horrible one iTunes uses by default (their DRM >enabled codec). Apart from looking pretty, iPods are a less capable >music player than most of their competitors. > > Ergonomically, the iPod is still very nice.
>If you want to see how an online music company should be run, check out >mp3tunes.com I am a paying customer of them, and in return they give me >*more* access to my music. I doubt they are perfect but at least the >music I buy is not locked in any fashion. > >This may sound harsh, but if you blindly accept the "services" of some >company, you get what you deserve. > > The Sheldon Chumir Foundation presented a speech sometime ago called "If I were an iPod." The just of the talk was about how we accept goods and services wrapped in technology where a generation or two ago we would not. They conveyed a true story about a resource development company in a third world nation decided to provide a better water resource for the people, then legislating with the government that you must purchase the water from them ended up in a civil war. The main story was about the speakers first iPod and how the battery component died and required replacement. The unit need to be sent back to the factory for service. When the story was changed to an artificial heart, the audience was outraged that it needed to be sent back for repairs. The two stories are very similar but the reaction was quite different. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
